When the Light Breaks Through
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness... Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted".
Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
And the Light Shineth...
Into this happy night
In secret, seen of none,
Nor saw I aught,
Without other light or guide,
Save that which in my heart did burn.
- St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)
The Mystery of the Single Eye
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 6:22-23
The First Gift of Christmas
He who realizes the inward in the outward, to him the inward becomes more inward than to him who only recognises the inward in the inward.
Henry Suso, German mystic (1295-1366)
The Invisible Guest
For anyone who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
1 John 4:20
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